Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 2 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 3 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 4 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 5 | It was obvious the aging side had peaked the previous season ; a major overhaul was needed , either at playing staff or managerial level . |
| 6 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 7 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 8 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 9 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 10 | An identical opposition coalition had backed the victorious Rengo-no-kai candidate in the Nara prefecture by-election on Feb. 9 . |
| 11 | Eight months previously ZTT 's Paul Morley had used the XL image factory and Katherine Hamnett to plaster fragments of his prose on to the chests of the nation 's youth . |
| 12 | The all-Ireland Catholic Primate , Dr Cahal Daly , said the shooting had shamed the national celebrations . |
| 13 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 14 | By June , when the war was over , the Falklands had entered the British vocabulary : a word with mixed connotations of heroism , waste , duplicity , valour and a desperate , atavistic yearning for national pride . |
| 15 | So , at the beginning of October , Susan saw a trichologist ( hair specialist ) , who said the salon had used the wrong chemicals . |
| 16 | In Havering London Borough v. Stevenson ( 1970 D.C. ) the question was whether the defendant had applied the false trade description ‘ in the course of a trade or business . ’ |
| 17 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 18 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) That the court 's discretionary jurisdiction to stay criminal proceedings should be exercised very sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances ; that , while the longer the delay was the greater was the likelihood that the prosecution was at fault and that the defendant had suffered prejudice and the less the prosecution could explain the delay the easier it would be to infer fault , the question whether the defendant had discharged the heavy burden of demonstrating that it would be an abuse of the process of the court for the proceedings to continue , was to be considered in the light of all the circumstances without applying shifting burdens of proof ; and that , accordingly , since the district judge had correctly taken into account all the relevant factors , and had made no error as to the burden of proof , there were no grounds on which the High Court judge could have reversed the district judge 's decision not to grant a perpetual stay of the 1989 prosecution ( post , pp. 261B , 264E–F , G–H , 265A–B ) . |
| 20 | Pakistan had won the first ‘ Test ’ , at Karachi , by an innings and four runs . |
| 21 | Donna had re-attached the back door to its frame as well , while Julie mopped up the blood in the hallway — although she finally passed out during the task . |
| 22 | The most important indicator was the role of the Commission which under the guidance of Walter Hallstein had played the active role hoped for by ardent Europeanists , overcoming the diminution of the supranational element in the EEC as compared to the ECSC . |
| 23 | It was widely agreed that the episode had damaged the public image of Congress and had discredited the confirmation process . |
| 24 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 25 | The Nationalist high command had disrupted the normal functioning of the country 's political , economic , cultural and social life , but had given no thought to the construction of alternative infrastructures and super-structures on their own organizational patterns . |
| 26 | The event , last sponsored by Harp in the mid 1980s , was staged at Wembley Arena and by the end of the televised evening tournament , Watford had scored the most goals to win the top award of the event . |
| 27 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 28 | She muttered incoherently but the sound was happy , and her eyes had lost the terrible haunted stare of madness . |
| 29 | A thousand eyes had watched the brief altercation , and now the whispers began in earnest . |
| 30 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |